Within the dinosaur-sized meme of “rappers selling drugs” there is a mini-meme that, despite showing up twice in “It’s All About the Benjamins” (here and here), has escaped the attention of scholars until today: rappers love talking about using their women (wife, girlfriend, other arrangement) as drug mules.

I got my honey on the Amtrak with the crack in the crack of her ass
Two pounds of hash in the stash

Amtrak was apparently a popular means of transporting one’s female drug mules. Cam'ron on Case’s “Scandalous”:

You know how Cam act drunk or playing sacks, stand back
Have a girl with a grand pack on Amtrak

Amtrak was popular both because it was a quicker means of getting from point A to point B and because women are terrible drivers

But getting a girl to carry drugs across state lines is not an easy sell. Fabolous, in “Take You Home” (a typical love song of his), explains that he and his girl are comfortable enough in their relationship that the girl doesn’t even worry about getting caught anymore:

Now I thugged you out, the way that you drinking
And don’t be scared to carry the yay I be slinging

Of course, such comforting lyrics may be misleading: in Everyday Struggle Biggie implies that his girl got caught:

And my bitch, swear to God she won’t snitch
I told her when she hit the bricks I’ll make the hooker rich
Conspiracy, she’ll be home in three

A word of caution to those aspiring rap-girlfriends: not only should you not trust rappers who want you to move their drugs because they may understate the risk of getting caught: they may even be lying to you about making it worth your while. Sure, Biggie said he’d make his girl wealthy: but he also stated in the song that he was just gassing her up (or bullshitting her):